Hormuz Island

Hormuz Island, also spelled Hormoz, Ormoz, Ormuz or Ormus, is an Iranian island in the .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Bandar Abbas County, Iran
  • Also known as: “Jazīreh Hormoz”, “Jazireh-ye Hormoz”, “Jezirat Hormuz”, “Ormuz”, and “Ormuz Island”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hormuz.

Photo: Hasanbardal, GFDL.
or Hormoz is a town on Island, off the Southwest coast of . was a fairly important city in medieval times, such as when Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta visited it, but today is only a town of about 6,000.

Hormuz Island

Latitude
27.0649° or 27° 3′ 54″ north
Longitude
56.4644° or 56° 27′ 52″ east
Population
3,000
Elevation
142 metres (466 feet)
Open location code
7HVR3F77+XQ
Geo­Names ID
131230
Wiki­data ID
Q695265
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Hormuz Island” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hormoes (eiland)”
  • Afrikaans: “Hormoes”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة هرمز”
  • Arabic: “هرمز (جزيرة)”
  • Arabic: “هرمز”
  • Assamese: “হৰমুজ দ্বীপ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hörmüz adası”
  • Bavarian: “Hormus”
  • Belarusian: “Армуз”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Армуз”
  • Bengali: “হরমুজ দ্বীপ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ормуз”
  • Bulgarian: “Хормуз”
  • Catalan: “Illa d’Hormoz”
  • Catalan: “Illa d’Hormuz”
  • Catalan: “illa d’Ormuz”
  • Catalan: “Illa d’Ormuz”
  • Catalan: “Ormuz”
  • Cebuano: “Jazīreh-ye Hormoz”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆرموز”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆرمۆز”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەی ھورمز”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھورموز”
  • Chinese: “霍尔木兹岛”
  • Chinese: “霍爾木茲島”
  • Croatian: “Hormuz”
  • Czech: “Hormuz”
  • Danish: “Hormuz Ø”
  • Danish: “Hormuz”
  • Dutch: “Hormoez”
  • Dutch: “Hormoz”
  • Dutch: “Hormuz”
  • Dutch: “Ormoez”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره هرمز”
  • Esperanto: “Hormuz”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥormuz”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Ormuzo”
  • Esperanto: “Ormuz”
  • Finnish: “Hormuz (saari)”
  • Finnish: “Hormuz”
  • French: “île d’Ormuz”
  • French: “Île d’Ormuz”
  • French: “Ormuz”
  • Galician: “Illa de Ormuz”
  • German: “Hormus”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Ορμούζ”
  • Hebrew: “הורמוז (אי)”
  • Hebrew: “הורמוז”
  • Hungarian: “Hormuz”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Hormuz”
  • Irish: “Oileán Hormuz”
  • Italian: “Hormuz”
  • Japanese: “ホルムズ島”
  • Korean: “호르무즈섬”
  • Lithuanian: “Hormūzas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hormus (Insel)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hormus”
  • Macedonian: “Ормуз”
  • Macedonian: “Хормуз”
  • Malagasy: “Hormuz (nosy)”
  • Malagasy: “Hormuz”
  • Malay: “Pulau Hormuz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hormuz”
  • Norwegian: “Hormuz”
  • Ossetian: “Ормуз”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੋਰਮੁਜ਼ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Persian: “جزيره هرمز”
  • Persian: “جَزيرِه هُرمُز”
  • Persian: “جزیره هرمز”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ هرمز”
  • Persian: “هُرمُز”
  • Polish: “Ormuz”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Ormuz”
  • Portuguese: “Ormuz”
  • Romanian: “Insula Ormuz”
  • Russian: “Ормуз”
  • Russian: “Хормуз”
  • Serbian: “Hormoz”
  • Serbian: “Ормуз”
  • Serbian: “Хормоз”
  • Serbian: “هرمز”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hormuz”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Ormuz”
  • Spanish: “Isla Ormuz”
  • Spanish: “Ormuz”
  • Swedish: “Hormuz”
  • Tamil: “ஹோர்முஸ் தீவு”
  • Turkish: “Hürmüz Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Ормуз”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ ہرمز”
  • Uzbek: “Hormuz”
  • Western Frisian: “Hormûz”
  • Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ ہرمز”
  • Wu Chinese: “霍尔木兹岛”

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